ŽIVOT K SEŽRÁNÍ
Czech Republic, France, Slovakia

Nominated for European Animated Feature Film 2024, European Film 2024

12-year-old Ben has just hit puberty and suddenly his weight's a problem – for him and for everyone else. The other kids bully him, his divorced parents don't know what to do ....

Italy

Sicily, a small seaside village of rough stone huts, surrounded by waste and scrap. Behind a majestic mountain, Arturo, a son of poverty and violence, was born and raised here, while his mother died here giving birth to him. Betta, Nuccia and the young Anna, prostitutes like his mother, ra...

The Netherlands, Belgium

Mr. K, a traveling magician, finds himself in a Kafkaesque nightmare when he can’t find the exit of the hotel he has slept in. His attempts to get out only pull him deeper, entangling him further with the hotel and its curious inhabitants.

Written & directed by: Tallula...

BIRU UNJÁRGA

Norway, Sweden, Finland

Elvira, a confident Sámi teenager, firmly believes that her mother conceived her at a Danish fertility clinic. She often daydreams about her father, envisioning him as a charismatic movie star. However, her world is turned upside down when her real biologica...

SAYYAREYE DOZDIDE SHODEYE MAN

Germany

MY STOLEN PLANET is a diary-style narrative by Farah, an Iranian filmmaker. Born during the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, she captures moments of joy and defiance in her daily life, navigating the contrast between domestic freedom and external oppress...

Palestine, Norway

Winner European Documentary 2024
Nominated for European Documentary 2024, European Film 2024

Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community's mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual era...

RRUGËS

Kosovo

Fiction

Father and son are on their way to the airport to pick up a gift sent from abroad by the boy's godfather. Amid bureaucratic hurdles, with little or no hope for real political and social changes in the country, they find comfort and strength in their shared optimism for th...

Germany

Animation/experimental

PACIFIC VEIN takes us through a painterly panorama of the US West. Julian Assange stands between imperial, Roman fake buildings as a soda maker and ponders the digitisation of our world. Around him, hippies, artists and homeless people search for meaning while the...

KÉK PELIKAN

Hungary

In the 1990s in Hungary, travelling is finally possible but unaffordable. By forging international train tickets, three young men provide the opportunity for a whole generation to experience the outside world.
With the fall of the Iron Curtain, Hungary’s borders suddenly ope...

Italy, United States

Nominated for European Actor 2024

In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a ...

RENÉ VA ALLA GUERRA

Italy

Documentary/experimental

Little René lives in a house in the woods of Slovenia. He spends his summer holidays playing alone, fantasising about defending the national borders from an enemy attack. The child designs and builds wooden toy weapons and then immerses himsel...

United Kingdom, France, Germany

Nominated for European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI 2024

In the corrupt hinterlands of Northern India, a newly widowed woman inherits her husband’s job as police constable through an archaic government scheme. When a young girl’s body is found, she is forced to conf...

SAUVAGES

Switzerland, France, Belgium

Nominated for European Animated Feature Film 2024, European Film 2024

In Borneo, near the tropical forest, Kéria rescues a baby orangutang in the palm oil plantation where her father works. Kéria's cousin Selaï comes to live with them seeking refuge from t...

L'HISTOIRE DE SOULEYMANE

France

Winner European Actor 2024, European Sound 2024
Nominated for European Actor 2024

As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deliver meals, Souleymane repeats his story. In two days, he has to go through his asylum application interview, the key to obtaining p...

France, Belgium, Netherlands

Nominated for European Documentary 2024, European Film 2024

Jazz and decolonisation are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against th...

EL SUEÑO DE LA SULTANA
Spain, Germany, India

Nominated for European Animated Feature Film 2024, European Film 2024

Inés, a Spanish artist, lives in India and stumbles upon SULTANA’S DREAM, a science fiction story written by Rokeya Hossain in 1905. It describes ‘Ladyland’, a utopia in which wome...

Germany

Experimental

A fictitious video correspondence between two women of different generations. A director is planning a film about her struggles with being a mother and remaining a filmmaker. But she is failing to make any real progress with the project. She turns for help to a writer who h...

TAKO TE VOLIM

Croatia, Portugal

Fiction

While spending holidays at his grandparents’ place in the countryside, a boy learns a cruel lesson of mercy.

Directed by: Mário Macedo
Written by: Ivor Radmilović Pavlek
Produced by: Luís Costa, André Guiomar, Šimun Kuliš, Vanja Vascarac
Cinematography:...

LE COMTE DE MONTE-CRISTO
France

The target of a sinister plot, young Edmond Dantes is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. After fourteen years in the island prison of Château d’If, he manages a daring escape. Now rich beyond his dreams, he assumes the identity of the Count...

EN HJÄLTES DÖD

Sweden

Fiction

In a small village where people don’t seem to get enough of entertainment, a young man is engaged to balance on his head at the top of the church tower and thereafter fall to the ground and dies. For doing this, he will receive a great deal of money. The people ga...

QU'IMPORTE LA DISTANCE

France

Fiction

At 5 in the morning, Yalla is in a hurry. Without her boss's permission, she leaves her night shift as a nursing assistant. She boards a bus, carrying only a heavy bag filled with clothes. The city is still asleep. Yalla sketches out on a piece of paper th...

LA FILLE QUI EXPLOSE

France

Animation

Nominated for European Short Film – Prix Vimeo 2024

For the past three months, Candice has been exploding every day. Sometimes even 2 or 3 times a day. Her record is seven times. She currently has had 192 explosions.

Written & directed by: Caroline Poggi...

FILMEN KÄNNS FÖR VIT

Sweden

Fiction

A final feedback meeting is being held before the release of an art school's new commercial. Everyone is pleased, but then a thought arises as to whether the commercial can be perceived as too white. This sparks a debate about how it happened, if it can be f...

PIGEN MED NÅLEN

Denmark, Poland, Sweden

Winner European Production Design 2024, European Original Score 2024
Nominated for European Screenwriter 2024, European Actress 2024 (2x)

Karoline, a young factory worker, is struggling to survive in post WW1 Copenhagen. When she finds herself unemployed...